About Réal Godbout

Artist

Canada

Adventure/Detective

Adult

Designer and co-writer of the Michel Risque and Red Ketchup series, Réal Godbout was born in Montreal in 1951. It was during the 1970s that he became one of the leaders of the renaissance of Quebecois comics, a period of effervescence often referred to as “the springtime of the BDQ”. Réal Godbout also works as an illustrator and has produced a series of comic strips for Les Débrouillards magazine. For twenty years, he taught comics at the École multidisciplinaire de l'image de l'Université du Québec en Outaouais. He was elected to the Canadian Comics Hall of Fame in 2009.

Books

Red Ketchup : L'agent orange, avec Robin Bourget-Godbout, Éditions de La Pastèque, 2024
L'Amérique ou le disparu, rééd., Éditions de La Pastèque, 2024
Heureux qui comme Ugo, avec Robin Bourget-Godbout, Éditions de La Pastèque, 2023